different between wriggle vs oscillate
wriggle
English
Etymology
From wrig +? -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”). Related to Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), from Proto-Germanic *wrig?n? (“to wriggle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?????l/
- Rhymes: -???l
Verb
wriggle (third-person singular simple present wriggles, present participle wriggling, simple past and past participle wriggled)
- (intransitive) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
- Synonym: wiggle
- Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 5
- Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.
- (transitive) To cause something to wriggle.
- Synonym: wiggle
- He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
- (intransitive) To use crooked or devious means.
Derived terms
- wriggler
- wriggly
Translations
Noun
wriggle (plural wriggles)
- A wriggling movement.
Translations
Anagrams
- wiggler
wriggle From the web:
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oscillate
English
Etymology
From Latin ?scill?tus, perfect passive participle of Latin ?scill? (“swing”), from ?scillum (“a swing”), usually identified with ?scillum (“a little face or mask hung on a tree that sways with the wind”), diminutive of ?s (“mouth, face”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??s?le?t/
Verb
oscillate (third-person singular simple present oscillates, present participle oscillating, simple past and past participle oscillated)
- (intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
- (intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
- (intransitive) To vary above and below a mean value.
Synonyms
- vacillate
Derived terms
- oscillator
Related terms
- oscillation
Translations
See also
- undulate
Further reading
- oscillate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- oscillate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- oscillate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Tesla coil, lactisole, localites, teocallis
Italian
Verb
oscillate
- second-person plural present indicative of oscillare
- second-person plural imperative of oscillare
- feminine plural of oscillato
Anagrams
- alcoliste
- costellai
- scolliate
- sollecita
- solletica
oscillate From the web:
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- what oscillates in an electromagnetic wave
- what oscillates in a light wave
- what oscillates when a sound wave propagates
- what oscillates in this type of wave
- what oscillates in a sound wave
- what oscillates in gravitational waves
- what oscillates in em waves
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